Amid demand from security agencies to monitor BlackBerry services, its maker Research in Motion (RIM) on August 3, 2010 expressed inability to meet the demand saying no one including the company could access the encrypted data. RIM’s statement comes at a time when Indian security agencies have warned the company to provide the technology to monitor contents or face a ban on its operations. Even the UAE and Saudi Arabia have said recently that they will bar the BlackBerry services due to security risks.

“The BlackBerry security architecture for enterprise customers is purposefully designed to exclude the capability for RIM or any third party to read encrypted information under any circumstances,” the Canadian firm said in a statement assuring its customers about security and privacy. “Governments have a wide range of resources and methodologies to satisfy national security and law enforcement needs without compromising commercial security requirements,” it added. The security architecture for enterprise customers is based on a symmetric key system whereby customers create their own key and only the customer ever possesses a copy of their encryption key.

“RIM does not possess a master key or does any back door exists in the system that would allow RIM or any third party to gain an unauthorised access to the key or corporate data,” the company said. It, therefore, would be unable to accommodate any request for a copy of a customer’s encryption key since at no time does RIM, or any wireless network operator, ever possess a copy of the key. There are about a million users of BlackBerry services in India at present. The security agencies in India apprehended that BlackBerry services in the present format posed a serious security threat.

The Ministry of Home Affairs had warned RIM that it would ban BlackBerry’s operations if the security concerns were not addressed. In view of technical problems involved in accessing the data, the government has been pushing the service provider to set up a BlackBerry server in India so that its services can be easily monitored by security agencies in an emergency. RIM, which operates in 175 countries, said, “While RIM does not disclose confidential regulatory discussions that take place with any government, RIM assures its customers that it is committed to delivering highly secure and innovative products that satisfy the needs of both customers and governments.”

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The superlative of secernment being applied in private schools. Bethany High, a topmost school in Bangalore, has sent a circular to the parents of their pupils and by this circular the school has warned them against the provisions of the Right to Education.

Being alarmist and absolute unpalatable, the circular pronounces that allowing in poor pupils into the school will be detrimental to the mind of those that are already learning in that location.

Thats not all, what’s still more disgraceful is that the school has compared poor children to criminals adding that such pupils may beat up other students as well as teach them bad habits.

The circular also implies that these poor childen are expected to misconduct with girls and teachers, advancing to add that none of this would then represent the school’s responsibility and that the school will be able to do nothing as according to the RTE, students can’t be thrown away from school.

Bethany High School circular shows:

“Kindly do not ignore this circular as it affects your child’s future directly

Any child will have to be allowed into school and share the classroom with your child. Eminent psychologists have said that this will be detrimental to the psyche of all the children.

Once this Act is enforced, another child could beat up your child, smoke on the campus, misbehave with a girl or a teacher and the school will have to watch helplessly. “

‘We will question the school’

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has slammed the school over the ‘elitist circular’. Sibal calls school’s circular discriminative and alleges the ministry will the school. He queried whether the school believes a six year aged will misconduct.

We would like to ask all our readers:

- Are poor children criminals barely as they are poor?

- Will children in private schools become demoralised if poor children learn with them ?

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